How Central is Race to International Relations?

IF 2.2 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI:10.1080/09636412.2023.2250718

Jack Snyder

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Abstract

Abstract While I agree that it is high time for more research on the conceptual and empirical questions of race raised in this special issue, I argue that mainstream approaches including realism and liberalism shed more light on the central mechanisms that drive international politics than do theories that put race in the central position. This is not because mainstream theories ignore identity politics, but because their theories of political identity are more closely tied to the powerful driving mechanisms of the nation-state and social modernization. Mainstream IR has, in recent decades, worked hard to understand the continuing power of nationalism and ethnicity using concepts that can also illuminate the category of race.

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种族对国际关系有多重要？

摘要虽然我同意现在是时候对本期特刊中提出的种族概念和实证问题进行更多的研究了，但我认为包括现实主义和自由主义在内的主流方法比将种族置于中心位置的理论更能揭示推动国际政治的核心机制。这并不是因为主流理论忽视了身份政治，而是因为它们的政治身份理论与民族国家和社会现代化的强大驱动机制联系更为紧密。近几十年来，主流国际关系学一直在努力利用同样可以阐明种族范畴的概念来理解民族主义和种族的持续力量。

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Security Studies INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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2.70

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16.70%

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